More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 104

And soon he heard it coming, roaring and raging from afar off, and at last it came near, spitting fire, and with a tongue like a great spear, and you could hear it roaring for miles, and it was making for the place where the king's daughter was staked down.

Who acts: lad, good, last, you · What happens: hear, come, roar, rage off, spit, make · To what, where: good, afar, fire, daughter

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, good, last, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 heard	cc
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 heard	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	obj
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 heard	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 roaring	punct
8	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 coming	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 raging	cc
10	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 coming	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 afar	case
12	afar	afar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 raging	obl
13	off	off	ADV	_	10 raging	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 came	nsubj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 last	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
20	near	near	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spitting	punct
22	spitting	spit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 came	advcl
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spitting	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tongue	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tongue	cc
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 tongue	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 tongue	det
28	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl
29	like	like	ADP	_	32 spear	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 spear	det
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 spear	amod
32	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tongue	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hear	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hear	cc
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 hear	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 hear	aux
37	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 hear	obj
39	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 hear	xcomp
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 miles	case
41	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 roaring	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 making	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 making	cc
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 making	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 making	aux
46	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 heard	advcl
47	for	for	ADP	_	49 place	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 place	det
49	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 making	obl
50	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	56 staked	advmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 king	det
52	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 daughter	nmod:poss
53	's	's	PART	_	52 king	case
54	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 staked	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 staked	aux:pass
56	staked	stake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 place	acl:relcl
57	down	down	ADP	_	56 staked	compound:prt
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	lad	good		with a tongue like a great spear; soon property	tree rules
2	come	gerund	good not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roar	gerund	good not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	rage off	gerund	good not said here		afar	off property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	last			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	spit	gerund	last not said here	fire			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
7	hear	could	you	good			tree rules
8	roar	gerund	good not said here			for miles	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for mile=Recipient
9	make	past · progressive	good			for the place	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for place=Asset
10	stake down	past · passive		the king's daughter			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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